Al Qaeda Urges Followers to Hit Back at U.S. Following Yemen Raid

Militants launch attacks on government-held territory

Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen exhorted followers over the weekend to take on the U.S. in response to a raid by American commandos that killed senior figures in the group, while the militants launched fresh attacks on territory held by the internationally recognized government.

Qasim al-Raymi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, compared his group to extremists fighting American forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, according to a speech translated by SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks extremist...